“Though each country may have retained the institutional features of its post-war political economy — statism in France, tripartite corporatist regulation in Germany — both experienced similar patterns of market liberalization followed by budgetary retrenchment. In turn, these processes ended up affecting the same social sectors in both countries, notably low-skill industrial and tertiary sector workers, in similar ways, resulting in the mobilization of these losing sectors by populist parties of the radical Right and radical Left. And if the political polarity of these parties was different in each country, this, as we have indicated, had more to do with the cultural and ideational orientations of the groups to whom these parties appealed, as well as the internal and external capacities of the latter to broaden their appeal, than with the institutional configurations of the French and German economies and political systems.
In short, for certain countries or groups of countries at least, neoliberal modernization is having similar structural-institutional and socio-cultural effects which in turn are fuelling various forms of radical populist politics.” – Gabriel Goodliffe, The price of disengagement: radical populism in France and Germany, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2012, 20:2, p.153
“A política só em sentido deturpado se pode confundir com agitação estéril, referver de ódios, estadear de ambições pessoais ou de grupos para a conquista e usufruição de altos lugares.”
O facto de a Alemanha e especialmente a França se terem tornado cada vez mais estatistas =bem mais de 50% do PIB passa pelas mãos dos políticos franceses é pelos vistos sinal de neoliberalismo.
E nem falemos do défice, pelos vistos esta alma iluminada deve julgar que a França tem défice zero ou perto….
Depois pelo texto parece que ter mais de 50% da economia traz os radicais populistas para a arena, como se o autor desta peça não fosse ele um radical populista ao ser socialista.
Este texto ficaria bem no Pravda.